What do people here think... should I go through the backlog of crappy resource questions on the site and abuse my newly found mod-powers to close them all?

This finally motivated me to update the FAQ

Sure why not

use the mod-powers!!

It might be different if ANY of them had any answers that were better than "this is what google presented to me in the first 10 results"

mmm, yeah

Are you going to link all of them to the meta resource thread?

Most of them already are, although I may have left some of the open ones out

Is it even possible to list a question as a duplicate of a meta thread?

Feels weird that it "crosses over" from main to meta

So far the only thing I've done as a mod is close that question, and edit a personal attack out of someone's comment.

looks like the answer is 'no'... you can only close as duplicate on the same site

!?!

Something weird just happened to me

A little numbered icon popped up and I could see "flagged comments"

Little blue icon on chat?

or, rather... on your icon in the lower left?

Yup

there was a small blue circle on the top left of the avatar

Yeah, that's a "please review this flag from somewhere in the chat system"

Most of the time, someone else would get to it before I would... but I've seen those before too

So it's a random assignment?

I clicked it once, it disappeared before I could read anything on it

not sure

There's a problem with disallowing resources questions I think

oh?

Of course it would be much neater if everything is ideal and organised in the meta resource thread

and if chat here had high traffic

Then the ideal system of request/recommend/update the meta thread would work

But the main site is still most convenient to post a request

It is... but I'm not convinced that the utility of allowing resource questions outweighs the annoyance of wading through really crappy resource questions.

The above example is a good case. That's a crappy question. Even if we allowed resource questions as a category, it still needed to be closed. (dup of a better question, open-ended, and just generally lacked enough specifics for anyone to answer)

"Resource Questions" are our site's version of 'shopping questions'... and have all of the same issues

In my opinion I feel resource questions are off-topic

It's like we're saying "Don't ask resource questions here", then at the same time we provide a "black market"

The "protocol" is to simply ask the question anyway, have someone comment or answer it, and then see the question closed a few days later.

Yeah

I guess that's our equilibrium now

@Flaw I'm not sure if there's a solution though.

It seems okay to just close these questions as they come

I mean... some people will always see this place as "just like reddit's /LearnJapanese", where "What textbook should I buy?" is fully on-topic and shows up about twice a month.

But usually one person doesn't ask multiple resource questions right?

If we allow resource questions, but still require them to be both specific and generally useful... we're just going to have that argument every single bloody time.

I guess if they've stuck around long enough the person would know that resource questions don't really belong

Unless we make them go through a checkbox "I have read and understood that resource request questions are off topic on this site" before submitting a question

eh... users don't read :)

I managed to sleep with my foot in a weird position

my toes feel weird

circulation cutoff?

I can feel them, they just feel "off axis"

They move normally but it doesn't feel like it's moving normally haha

A band of marauding ninja-surgeons probably snuck into your room in the middle of the night and gave you a bionic toe.

Of all the things to make bionic. Toe.

In other news... fun with SO: stackoverflow.com/posts/15103559/revisions

aww... it was deleted

used to be a question with the entire text of Romeo and Juliet as the body

Though it is offtopic, and I've closed it as such... I'll admit that the app is kinda fun to play with kids.nifty.com/cs/game/detail/91125000012/1.htm

Anyone read a good history book on the meji restoration?

伺いたい ... why on earth do I have so much trouble with such a simple kanji...

mix of 何 and 同..

uhm thinking out loud I guess.

Not that that answers anything.

That radical is probably most common for language learners in 詞

(it's not quite the same as 可)

Not so sure, haven't learned that one yet.

動詞 <- verb :)

ah it's a different one in 同?

形容詞 <- 'i'-adjective

Do a lot of text books put emphasis of these words/phrases? Or is it courses at university/highschool that do?

My teachers certainly never mentioned it anyway, neither did Genki..

@gibbon I think you see that more in reference books.

JLPT study books at higher levels will use those terms

I guess once day I'll have to learn all of those.. but for now I'm happy to read all of them as flarglarlalgal